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Speaker 1: From Media Doors World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Kel's We Can Review with Ryan kel Kelly. Now

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Speaker 1: here's cal This week we're gonna talk about raptors and

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Speaker 1: lead poisoning shrooms, US customs salmon. Little pouch has made

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Speaker 1: out of fox faces and more for starters. Ever, wonder

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Speaker 1: what the hell is taking so long in the U

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Speaker 1: If you were wondering this the other day at L

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Speaker 1: a X, a guy named Virgilio Martinez could be to blame.

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Speaker 1: Martinez appeared on the Netflix series Chef's Table. He was

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Speaker 1: coming into the US from his native Peru and ended

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Speaker 1: up spending three hours in detention. What was the hold up?

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Speaker 1: Virgilio was flying home with forty whole vacuum sealed piranhas,

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Speaker 1: which he chose to describe on official forms as bones

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Speaker 1: and flesh, thinking perhaps that grossly oversimplifying things might make

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Speaker 1: them go smoother, as though agents are going to think, oh,

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Speaker 1: just bones and flesh and let it slide. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to think of a joke here about carry on, get it,

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Speaker 1: carry on. That's for you guys who love dad jokes.

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Speaker 1: Those customs, guys see some strange things. They've seized the

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Speaker 1: live tiger kittens, live otters, and in one instance, two

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Speaker 1: hundred live tarantulas, all of which were confiscated. In this instance,

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Speaker 1: the chef kept his fish. Following the fiasco. He cooked

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Speaker 1: them at an event where he wanted to promote the

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Speaker 1: eating of paratas. At this point, I'm sure he got

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Speaker 1: more promotional bank out of his buck than he imagined.

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Speaker 1: Switching from Peru slash l A to Georgia and from

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Speaker 1: Anna to presidential Former President Jimmy Carter was heading out

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Speaker 1: turkey hunting a couple of days ago and fell and

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Speaker 1: busted his hip. He had surgery. He said his main

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Speaker 1: concern is that he hasn't yet filled his turkey limit.

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Speaker 1: He wants the state of Georgia to roll over his

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Speaker 1: unused tags for next year, which would be a clear

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Speaker 1: case of presidential overreach. Now I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 1: about my week. Turns out President Carter isn't the only

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Speaker 1: one with the health problem that kind of involves turkeys.

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Speaker 1: I was telling a bunch of folks about a hemorrhoid

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Speaker 1: I would get. Blood, some of my own, some not,

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Speaker 1: and pain also served two ways. Long story short, I

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Speaker 1: wanted a bird and took refuge in the thickest, nastiest

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Speaker 1: bramble choked creek bottom you can magine. I happened to

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Speaker 1: be hunting with my good friend Garrett Smith Dirt Meth,

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Speaker 1: who acted as the spotter as I belly crawled through

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Speaker 1: single drop of blood, which gave away the wounded turkey's

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Speaker 1: probable route. Old Dirt repositioned to a spot along the

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Speaker 1: escape path. Meanwhile, I continued my crawl, now in the

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Speaker 1: of a turkey swimming well. As I came to a

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Speaker 1: that same spot from the downstream side and pronounced, hey,

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Speaker 1: I got him turkey down. Well, that good feeling didn't

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Speaker 1: last long. The bird, who had just previously been announced

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Speaker 1: and directly through Dirt who was suspended above it. You know,

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Speaker 1: on top of the brambles. We ended up with cuts, scrapes,

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Speaker 1: my share of easy hunts. They do happen, but this

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Speaker 1: bird or any animal for that matter. Okay, moving on, Washington,

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Speaker 1: Oregon recently received authorization to kill hundreds of marine mammals

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Speaker 1: resident pods in the heavily damned Columbia River basin. The

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Speaker 1: Californian Stellar sea lions have been having hey day, eating

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Speaker 1: variety of fish, including the whale's favorite food, chinook salmon.

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Speaker 1: The Southern resident killer whales or salmon specialists, unlike their

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Speaker 1: That's down from an estimated nine million. Before the age

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Speaker 1: This is rare because the pikemanow is a native fish.

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Speaker 1: Some dedicated anglers have earned more than a hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: governor just signed a bill into lock greatly liberalized regulations

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Speaker 1: for walleye, channel catfish and baths non native fish which

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Speaker 1: with all size and bag limits on small mouth, large

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Speaker 1: Snake some of the best smally fishing in the country,

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Speaker 1: but this new bill will do the same in any

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Speaker 1: of fishy favoritism. It's worth reminding people here of something

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Speaker 1: that is really simple. If it weren't for the dams,

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Speaker 1: Catfish are also getting in trouble way over in chess

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Speaker 1: Peak Bay. Different catfish, this being the blue catfish, but

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Speaker 1: the same idea around competition with native species. Maryland Department

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Speaker 1: These sometimes massive, whiskered and decidedly tasty fish are causing

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Speaker 1: damage to the ecosystem. Maryland State Game Management Agency came

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Speaker 1: up with a creative solution to popularize the take of

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Speaker 1: college students at the University of Maryland in order to

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Speaker 1: turn people onto eating them. This flies in the face

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Speaker 1: of that old adage about teaching kids to fish and

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Speaker 1: of bitches out of the ecosystem. This mirrors a program

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Speaker 1: some of the Asian carp currently inundating waterways throughout the

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Speaker 1: said former Illinois Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti, who helped launch

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Speaker 1: the program. University of Illinois is serving nine thousand to

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Speaker 1: eleven thousand pounds of carpe a year. Taking things over

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Speaker 1: to our Health and Wellness desk. A little plague news, which,

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Speaker 1: if you think about it, has been more or less

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Speaker 1: lacking since the Dark Ages of the fourteenth century. A

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Speaker 1: few weeks back, a couple living in a remote area

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Speaker 1: of Mongolia dined on raw marmot liver, a traditional dish,

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Speaker 1: six days. Tourists were stranded. Some panic ensued. Western news

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Speaker 1: outlets reveled in the news with a sort of condescending

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Speaker 1: tone meant to convey the impression that, no ship, you

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Speaker 1: shouldn't eat raw marmot liver. But honestly, that doesn't strike

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Speaker 1: me as an entirely unappealing or unusual idea. A few

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Speaker 1: plague facts for you. The bubonic plague, also known as

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Speaker 1: the Black Death, ran rampant through Europe in the fourteenth century,

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Speaker 1: killing an estimated twenty million people. When the plague hit

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Speaker 1: the plague maintains existence through a nasty cycle between the

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Speaker 1: rodents and their fleas. Urban areas with higher rat populations

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Speaker 1: have an increasingly high risk of plague. The last urban

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Speaker 1: and was directly caused by infected rats. So there's that now,

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Speaker 1: a couple of quick hits for you. A bunch of

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Speaker 1: a party. Administrators suspended the university's chapter of Alpha Epsilon

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Speaker 1: seeing the movie Strange Brew brings that to mind in

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Speaker 1: a way. Another quickie. The actress Anne Hathaway recently discussed

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Speaker 1: breaking from years of veganism to enjoy a meal of salmon.

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Speaker 1: She said that it was as though her brain rebooted

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Speaker 1: like a computer. For days now, I've been trying to

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Speaker 1: Just passing along is all. What's even cooler than that,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, is that researchers in North Carolina have

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Speaker 1: estimated two thousand, six hundred and twenty four years old,

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Speaker 1: So when Jesus was born, that tree was six hundred

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Speaker 1: and five years old. When the guy who ordered Christ's death,

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Speaker 1: Paunches Pilot, was born, that tree was five nine three

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Speaker 1: the tree has so far been alive about thirty three

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Speaker 1: the latest from dudes Hunting in Texas. We should just

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Speaker 1: Texas desk. Four guys were recently convicted of hunting from

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Speaker 1: a helicopter for big game took photos. Of course, it

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Speaker 1: turns out it violates federal law. When you're in trouble

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Speaker 1: Now we're gonna jump over to our National Park desk,

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Speaker 1: and uh talk about some eagles. You may have heard

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Speaker 1: Yellowstone National Park class December. Well, just recently, a bald

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Speaker 1: eagle is found dead outside of Glacier National Park. Both

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Speaker 1: of these birds were found to have severely elevated lead

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Speaker 1: denying it. But for an equally long time, folks have

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Speaker 1: been debating the source of lead. People pointed to a

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Speaker 1: well documented study conducted by Dr Myra Finkelstein, who observed

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Speaker 1: a pair of condors ingesting lead based paint that had

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Speaker 1: flaked off of a water tower, apparently out of boredom.

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Speaker 1: Remember the Las and Albatroz from episode one of Col's

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Speaker 1: they are apparently paint eaters as well. They're lead source

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Speaker 1: Midway Atoll what do I mean by boredom? Well, messing

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Speaker 1: Hallo snergetic mushrooms. The plan doesn't permit sale and purchase

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Speaker 1: down in Denver. Hey. This has been Cal's weekend review.

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